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Trinity to be split in two - Sunday Times

  • 02-10-2007 8:53pm
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    Just so you know. Spotted this amongst other stuff USI send me from time to time.
    Sunday Times 30/09/2007

    www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/sunday_times_university_guide/article2538103.ece

    Fresh approach wins plaudits for Trinity
    Ireland's oldest university has won top marks by proving it is not afraid to innovate, writes Colm Murphy

    Consistently topping our league table for five years in a row, combined with a forward-thinking approach to academic life, has won Trinity College Dublin The Sunday Times University of the Year award for 2007.

    Ireland’s oldest university, inaugurated in 1592, wins this coveted award after 12 months that have witnessed the biggest reorganisation, and long-needed simplification, of the college’s haphazard academic structure. It will allow TCD to be more agile, particularly in course provision.

    So unruly was its bureaucracy that it is only now standardising the academic year across all courses, and in 2009 a semester system will be introduced.


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  • #2
    godtabh
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    Myth wrote:
    Just so you know. Spotted this amongst other stuff USI send me from time to time.


    Its there for some courses already so why not all or at the very least keep it consistent for each course.

    Civil engineering in 3rd year was/is broken up into two. Meant less summer exams but also an extra few weeks of stress (and an extra blow out session!).


    Masters seem to be broken up into that but I assume thats to give time to do the thesis?


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    kearnsr wrote:
    Its there for some courses already so why not all or at the very least keep it consistent for each course.

    Civil engineering in 3rd year was/is broken up into two. Meant less summer exams but also an extra few weeks of stress (and an extra blow out session!).

    Yeah. It was nice getting the exams over with but still it was done quite badly. Especially since 3 of the courses run/ran for the entire year. Also, finishing exams one the Friday to start lectures again on the Monday was just painful.


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Myth wrote:

    Yeah. It was nice getting the exams over with but still it was done quite badly. Especially since 3 of the courses run/ran for the entire year. Also, finishing exams one the Friday to start lectures again on the Monday was just painful.

    Maybe now this gives them a chance make changes


    I was away with the football team the week after so wasnt all that bad!


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